La Cuesta Racquet Club

La Cuesta Racquet Club covers 16.6 acres measured against the city's published boundary and holds 161 residential addresses among the 166 the address layer records inside the line. Only one address carries a unit designator and the assessor classes all 161 dwellings as single-family residential. Nine named streets serve them across 0.83 miles, and every one begins with the same letter: Ashland, Alpine, Amber, Arch, Applecross, Arrow, Alondra, April and Anna.

The built form is uniform. The assessor's median building is 1,733 square feet on a median lot of 2,257, with a tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 1,538 to 1,859 square feet, and 159 of the dated structures are two story against one that is single. Eighteen addresses carry a pool. City zoning and the general plan both read the whole boundary as residential medium density, and the boundary fills 95.5 percent of its own convex hull. The community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, no city park land falls inside it or within 250 meters, and the bus stop layer records three stops within that distance.

La Cuesta Racquet Club is 161 homes on about 17 acres, every one of them built between 1975 and 1977. The most immediately odd thing about it is the street plan, because every street starts with the letter A. Ashland, Alpine, Amber, Arch, Applecross and Arrow all run off the same short loop, which makes the place easy to find and almost impossible to describe over the phone.

It went up just after the steepest decade in the city's census record. Huntington Beach counted 11,492 residents in 1960 and 115,960 in 1970, an increase of more than nine hundred percent. Nearly all of that arrived as tract housing laid over farmland, and the tennis and pool clubs that came with developments like this one were part of the sales pitch.